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Blue+The+Engineer
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June 5, 2026
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Question about quality of hand drawn image

  • June 5, 2026
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Hello community! I use Adobe products every day, but I am not very active on Stock so I am not sure what was wrong here. This is a hand drawn phone wallpaper - I drew it in Procreate using symmetry.  I did have to use Photoshop to upscale it because I make my wallpapers (for other places) at 1440x2560.  When I went to upload, it failed to upload due to being too small on the resolution.  I didn’t use the AI in photoshop to upscale it, I went the old fashioned way in Photoshop.  It’s not an AI image so I didn’t want to use AI to upscale it.  I brought it up to 2160x3840 and changed it to 300 DPI from 72 (I usually do phone wallpapers at 72.) 

Maybe it is just something they don’t like, but it is original and hand drawn.  The issue stated was a quality issue.  I will be selling it other places so it’s not a big deal for me, just wondering what the problem is here with this one.  Do you think it is just the style? Under quality is lists over exposure and other stuff, but this is hand drawn lol.  It was a random doodle one night and I decided to add color and my daughters loved it.

 The file size is too large for me to upload the 2160x3840 picture in this post, but this is the original 1440x2560.  

 

    2 replies

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 5, 2026

    I think you’re bucking up against too much supply & too little demand.

     

    Stock contains close to 1 million phone wallpapers, and countless millions more backgrounds, wallpapers & abstracts. Not to mention all the free ones available on the internet.

    https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=phone+wallpaper

    https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=wallpaper

    https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=backgrounds

     

    Find something else to submit that has far less representation. 

     

    Good luck.

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    daniellei4510
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 5, 2026

    Just a wild guess, but as a hand-drawn image, it might be little too “primitive’ for Adobe Stock. Adobe is looking for a more finished quality and the mixed colors in each section might be one reason the moderator rejected it. Here’s your original compared to an AI version with the colors made solid. Either way, I think you are correct in that your original might have been luck on another platform.. One final note: Adobe would not consider upscaling alone as a requirement for marking the image as created with AI.

     

    Adobe Community Expert | If you aren't submitting your assets in sRGB, you probably didn't read the rules.
    Blue+The+Engineer
    Participant
    June 5, 2026

    Got it, thank you! I appreciate the feedback.  I did go a little bit wild with brushes and colors lol.  I could actually hide all the layers that have the extra colors, but I didn’t like the way it looked without them.  It is more of a “as is” instead of an asset.